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Title: Act of Revenge by Robert K. Tanenbaum ISBN: 0-06-109730-6 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.68 (22 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Karps quirky extended family provides enough depth for years
Comment: From Publisher's Weekly - Publishers Weekly: Veteran authorTanenbaum (Reckless Endangerment, Irresistible Impulse etc.) pens alethal family outing for series protagonist Butch Karp, his vigilante wife, Marlene Ciampi, and their linguistic prodigy daughter, Lucy, in this take-no-prisoners tale of mob violence, Asian incursion and political corruption that spans decades. All become embroiled in a labyrinth of interconnected plot lines and intersecting lives during an Asian gangsters plan to take over Italian mob turf in Little Italy next to Chinatown. Chief Assistant District Attorney Karps team is stumped when the usual mob suspects dont pan out in the killing of Eddie Catalano, a capo for Big Sally Bollano, don of the Mafia crime family, but he has bigger problems when two Hong Kong triad biggies are murdered in Chinatown. Karps daughter, Lucy, witnesses the killings, but refuses to talk because it would endanger the Chinese family she grew up with... The closed society of Chinatown proves a formidable barrier to police probes and only Lucy and Tran can make headway and flush the killer when attacks on the Karp family get starkly personal. Former New York City homicide chief and trial attorney Tanenbaum has crafted a believably twisted gem of a gangster tale with visceral action and smooth comic relief in a technicolor, Big Apple setting that waxes nostalgic for the gentleman killers of yesteryear. Lucy is an engaging adolescent addition and Karps quirky extended family provides enough depth for years of sequels. (May)
Rating: 5
Summary: Latest in series of thrillers radically creative in the genr
Comment: This review is about the latest Karp as it connects with all 10 previous Karp thrillers. The typical hero of a thriller is a lone wolf - private eye, disaffected cop, intelligence agent - at odds with the system, and works outside it to resolve the plot, catch the villain and restablish justice. He, usually a he, may have emotional attachments, but they're typically romantic, and after a certain amount of sexual fireworks, they fade in the final pages, so that in the next book 'he' can start fresh with another romance. Rarely is there a family around. The writer inside this convention provides thrills but can't penetrate deeply into real life, for society's means of ACTUALLY coping with crime is highly bureaucratized, and the solution and punishment of crimes a group enterprise. Also, conventional thrillers finesse the effects of immersion in violence and corruption of family life. Your typical thriller hero is unmarried, or has a broken family. The Karp books try to deal with the question of how a family responds to an atmosphere of danger and violence. Butch Karp is a senior official with the N.Y. D.A. His wife, Marlene, is a private detective who specializes in protecting women from stalkers and domestic violence. Their teen-aged daughter, Lucy, is a language prodigy, speaking dozens of languages fluently, who, as a result of this facility, is able to penetrate the various immigrant communities of N.Y. (and their criminous elements) in ways unavailable to her parents. This set-up allows these books to deal with the conflict between law and justice, between the demands of work and child rearing, between the moral assumptions of the established culture and those of newcomers, between men and women, between parents and children, at a depth not usual in the average thriller. Essentially, these are domestic comedies layered upon the tragedy implicit in society's need to impose a single order on the near infinite variety of individuals that compose it. As well as being a "good" read, they're a serious read. This writer obviously knows a great deal about novel writing and has high standards. Hope to see the writer unfold his talents in other genres, which he's obviously capable of doing.
Rating: 3
Summary: Lots of action
Comment: "Act of Revenge" finds Assistant District Attorney Butch Karp, his security specialist wife Marlene Ciampri, and their teenage language prodigy daughter Lucy all tangled in a web of Chinese and Italian organized crime machinations. Butch and Marlene are involved in different Mafia-related investigations; meanwhile, Lucy - who enjoys more personal freedom than any young adolescent outside of literature intended for that age group - has witnessed a killing in Chinatown and is now a target herself. Fans of the series will be interested in Lucy's evolving relationship with her parents as she grows older. I seem to be working my way through this series backwards, so I can't compare this book to previous installments, but I can say that it is primarily action-oriented and lacks the sort of compelling issues that were at the center of "True Justice" (the book that followed in the series). I was also disappointed at the extent to which the story's resolution is achieved through lucky coincidence rather than investigation.
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Title: Reckless Endangerment by Robert K. Tanenbaum ISBN: 0451193288 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Corruption of Blood by Robert K. Tanenbaum ISBN: 0451181964 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Immoral Certainty by Robert K. Tanenbaum ISBN: 0451171861 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Depraved Indifference by Robert K. Tanenbaum ISBN: 0451168429 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: August, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Irresistible Impulse by Robert K. Tanenbaum ISBN: 0451192613 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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